Tag: Children
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This boat is ours
When survival is a shared endeavour, who comes first? Questions What does safety mean in catastrophe? Does survival depend on conformity or rebellion? And what happens if you disagree with the people you’re trying to survive with? Who gets to be saved? Thinking It has often struck me how reports of disaster, catastrophe, and crisis,…
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The Three Cs: Choice, Children, Care
In which I go in circles pretending fictional characters have real moral obligations Questions Why did my undergrad philosophy degree not include Care Ethics? Why does being cared for feel so great in some situations, and so diminishing in others? How does choice, based on our own wants needs values, rub up against our ethical…
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A Return
to Substack, to normal, to questions Questions Why is the presence of children a signal of hope in novels about catastrophes? Why are children presented as different beings to the adults they’ll become? Why do we talk about having children as a choice: What does it mean if children are a signal of hope in…
Alison Theresa 